Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity closed the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit (COP10) by adopting decisions that will permit the community of nations to meet the unprecedented challenges of the continued loss of biodiversity compounded by climate change. The European Environment Agency will continue to support Europe's policymakers in implementing the ensuing measures.

The meeting achieved its
three inter-linked goals: adoption of a new ten year Strategic Plan to guide
international and national efforts to save biodiversity through enhanced action
to meet the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a resource
mobilisation strategy that provides the way forward to a substantial increase
to current levels of official development assistance in support of
biodiversity; and a new international protocol on access to and sharing of the
benefits from the use of the genetic resources of the planet.

The European Union warmly welcomed
the agreement here in Nagoya
on a global strategy to combat biodiversity loss, the mobilization of the
necessary resources to implement it and the creation of a Protocol on Access to
and Benefit Sharing of genetic resources. In addition to continuing to implement
its own Biodiversity Strategy of halting the rate of biodiversity loss by 2020,
the EU pledged to play its role to the full in implementing the measures agreed
in Nagoya. The
European Environment Agency will continue shaping its supportive role in line
with European and global objectives.

Featured article

To most people the idea of a circular economy remains an abstract if not far-off concept. While ‘going green’ is a growing popular theme around the world, many people are not yet aware of the greater ...